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Sounds like a fantastic way for law enforcement to get into your phone with probably cause. Random message you a benign picture from some rando account with a matching hash. Immediate capture for CP, data mine the phone, insert rootkit, 'so sorry about the time and money you lost - toodles'.


Don’t warrants have to name why ?

Like a warrant for CP can’t be used to collect evidence on another cases for say tax fraud.


Warrants do have to name why, and where. However, anything they find along the way is fair game. If they open your trunk to find drugs and see a dead body, then the dead body is still admissible. (Assuming that the opening the trunk for drugs is okay.)




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